Even in 2019, public opinion shifted liberal on immigration
As well as interesting age data in the latest release by the British Election Study, there is also a positive finding about the long-term trend on immigration. … Read the full post »
Opinion polls
Read about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys.
For a full database of voting intention polls since their birth in the UK in 1943, see PollBase, the largest collection of voting intention polls.
How political party support varies by age
New analysis from the British Election Study shows the age breakdown of party support. It’s notable how flat Lib Dem support is… … Read the full post »
A year of Brexit polling and public opinion is back to where it started
After a year of Brexit negotiations, Brexit progress and Brexit polling, public opinion has ended up pretty much where it started. … Read the full post »
Less than one in ten say they know what Universal Basic Income (UBI) is
It’s one of many pieces of commonly used political jargon that most of the public has either not heard or or isn’t sure what it means. … Read the full post »
How the values of voters and of Liberal Democrat voters compare
There is lots of interest tucked into just this one graph from No Turning Back: The 2019 General Election and the UK’s new electoral geography from the centre-right thinktank, Onward. … Read the full post »
Inquiry into the Performance of the Opinion Polls at the 2019 Australian Federal Election
The post-mortem into the performance of the polls at the 2019 Australian federal election was recently published. … Read the full post »
British public supports proportional representation 42% – 33%
Data from YouGov’s political trackers shows there is currently greater support in the public for proportional representation (42%) than for the current electoral mechanism (33%). … Read the full post »
The first by-election opinion poll got it right, whilst pundits got it wrong
The Fulham West by-election 1938 was won for Labour by Edith Summerskill, taking the seat from the Conservatives by 52%-48% in the face of widespread predictions by pundits that the Tories would hold on. Why mention this? … Read the full post »
A very striking finding about the modern state of the Conservative Party
Assuming the figures are accurate (and ConHome’s leadership surveys seem to have been), this is a very striking finding about the modern state of the Conservative Party… … Read the full post »
How not to report a poll: The Independent and JL Partners
After 2016, it’s understandable why media outlets are taking care to emphasise that even polls showing Joe Biden clearly ahead of Donald Trump… … Read the full post »